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Tutorial: Logging service component events
For service component event points that you monitor, events can be published to the logging facilities of the underlying WebSphere Application Server. This tutorial guides you through an example of setting up monitoring with logging, and how to view events stored in a log file.
The scenario you will follow for this example will show you how to select service component event points for monitoring in applications already deployed and running on a server. You will see how the monitoring function fires an event whenever the processing of an application reaches one of those event points. Each of those fired events takes the form of a standardized Common Base Event, which is published as an XML string directly to a log file.
Objectives of this tutorial
After completing this tutorial you will be able to:
- Select service component event points to monitor, with the output published to the server loggers.
- View the stored events in the log files.
Time required to complete this tutorial
This tutorial requires approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
Prerequisites
In order to perform this tutorial, you must have:
- Configured and started a server.
- Configured Common Event Infrastructure.
- Enabled the diagnostic trace service on the server.
- Installed and started the Samples Gallery application on the server.
- Installed and started the business rules sample application on the server. Follow the instructions on the Samples Gallery page to set up and run the business rules sample application.
After all of these prerequisites have been completed, run the business rules sample application from the Samples Gallery at least once before proceeding with the tutorial.
- Example: Monitoring events in the logger
For monitoring with logging, you can use the administrative console to manage the details for event types. This example shows the use of the console to change the level of detail recorded for some event types and to use a text editor to open the trace.log file to view the information for individual events.
Configure logging for service component events
Related tasks:
Administering Common Event Infrastructure: 
Related information:
Installing and accessing the Samples Gallery
Enabling the diagnostic trace service
Event catalog
Viewing and interpreting service component event log files